The bar area at new Uptown restaurant Coup D'etat. The bar menu was created by Jesse… more

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Borough has been listed by several critics as one of the best new restaurants of 2013. Jester Concepts is a five-person ownership team made up of operators Brent Frederick and Jacob Toledo. Three other owners make up the executive chef team: Tyler Shipton and Nick O'Leary (both former Travail chefs) and Joe Rolle.

The bar menu at Coup D'etat comes from Jesse Held, who won lots of praise for doing the same at Borough's bar, Parlour.

The restaurant was designed by Elness Swenson Graham Architects of Minneapolis.

The space is on the first two levels of The Walkway, a new development at Lake Street and Girard Avenue. Cowboy Slim's was torn down to make room for the building, which also has 92 apartments.

Coup D'etat has a mix of adventurous items like bone marrow ($14) and octopus ($12); pricier dinners like the flat iron steak ($30) and quail ($24); but also casual options like $12 to $15 pizzas. When the street food window opens this spring it will have an even more casual menu.

The restaurant's grand opening is Jan. 20. The restaurant will be open 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily.